If you're not willing to have somebody hauled off at gunpoint over the project, then it's probably not a legitimate concern of the state.

The thing that makes me feel young, honestly, is making television. It's the only thing that excites me, the way that you get excited when you're a kid. That's why I still do it.

The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits.

Benign environmentalists are opposed to pollution, as all sensible people are; malign environmentalists are opposed to energy and most of what it enables.

Detroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host.

I love to go back and write and direct another film one day, but that's on the backburner for now because I'm involved with so much television at the moment.

I'm always going to look and refer to things and remember things differently than perhaps a real or honest viewer can. I'm tainted with knowing too much. But I still very much love it.

I look at it [Scream movie] and think, wow, I can't believe I wrote that at such a young age. I also look at it and go, ohhh ouch, that dialogue, whoa.

Health care and education are too important NOT to be left to the free market.

The difference between communism and socialism is that under socialism central planning ends with a gun in your face, whereas under communism central planning begins with a gun in your face.

Pain is hard to bear.... But with patience day by day Even this shall pass away.

I got an owner that looks out for me. You can't beat that.

Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.

Cheap grace is grace without discipleship.

Those who are already adept at some disciplines of the body will find that the study of Zen and meditation will give you much more control than you now have.

If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.

Condemned to violence, arrested by pain. Inside the soul lies a man insane.

Out of the most secure things, the most secure is to doubt.

Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how slippery the concept of goodness is to start with.

Happiness, sadness, loss and gain all pass away. What they do to us is what remains.